"This album is not hip hop, nor electronic, nor pop. I do not try to make it fit. It is an album about life. The journey of a man through his life. Some of the songs will evoke quests, struggle, freedom and invitation to take risks to live fully. What I try to convey to my own sons every day. 

The journey is pictured through the eyes of the child, adolescent, adult and old man in us all. The album is about all the life changing events of life, about the key people we have the chance or are unfortunate to meet and to share a piece of the road with. It is an album about making the best of your times."

Matterflow

A Matter of Time and Essence

Produced by Matterflow
Vocals by Raekwon
Composed by Matterflow and Ken Stringfellow
Arranged and Mixed by Rhino
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Gopher at Translab Mastering Studios

--- Lyrics :

One two, one two
Yeah, Louis Rich, Chef, let’s go

I was in gray space lyrically from the 90s
When we used rob, sell coke and we’d scream god
But that’s behind me
Every days a blessing, tour gems from a kid
With obsessions to get on, and get more
 
I was in gray space lyrically from the 90s
When we used rob, sell coke and we’d scream god
But that’s behind me
Every days a blessing, tour gems from a kid
With obsessions to get on, and get more

Cloudy days I sit back, analyse how we gonna stay rich,
Comfortable the garments is kif
From the ghettos to the places we don’t sell those
Sure buys, no fellows, just me in the cage, playing the cello,
Deep thoughts, clean as a fuck, mean talk
Now it’s stock market junkie where I’m easily taught
How to win because a loss is a lesson
Still a win, now we all up in the wind up in Vegas
Grab the Porsche, go cruise, little under a buck
Roll up, now hold up, right now I should be at least worth a buck
Counting, tax and accountants, writing off shit,
Them other niggas doubting, I’m just shouting,
Y'all niggas think it’s easy? Hand in my peacoat,
Thinking I'm gonna pull a gun but it’s coach (yo)
Wise man stay alive, you come from the poor part
You just been throwing darts and playing bills smart
Bottle in my left hand, Licataa and Dom
With some ice tea in a glass, a walk on the farm
Legs crossed, Diadora is on, reading the raw report
Young black and wealthy report

I was in gray space lyrically from the 90s
When we used rob, sell coke and we’d scream god
But that’s behind me
Every days a blessing, tour gems from a kid
With obsessions to get on, and get more

I was in gray space lyrically from the 90s
When we used rob, sell coke and we’d scream god
But that’s behind me
Every days a blessing, tour gems from a kid
With obsessions to get on, and get more

Yeah, 
Know where you traveling young man
Make no mistakes
They want you to lose
But you already a winner
And keep your mind sharp
And keep your circle tight, you’ll be good
Trust me, this is a big bracelet right here
It’s probably one of the biggest bracelets you ever tried on
Louis Rich, Shallah Raekwon
Lex Diamonds, yo bro, salute, one.

Gray Space

Gray Space feat. Raekwon

Produced by Matterflow
Vocals by Sole
Composed by Matterflow and Caroline Duris
Arranged and Mixed by Rhino
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Gopher at Translab Mastering Studios

--- Lyrics :

Hell is, 
Somewhere over the pond 
Loathing the mind 
Catch me combing the calm 
For some poetry found 
I think I’m, Francois Villon in a Guy Debord time  
Haymarket martyr with no bomb  
I hope not, hopes not enough to keep you warm 
I’m a man with no country stop giving it form 
My heart bares scars from staring down Poseidon 
No honor  
Outside of the law you can't try them  
Cells don’t jail them, born to succeed, the city fails them 
Throw books at us and we read ‘em 
Today we know them better than y’all  
Lead in the blood, red in the face 
They’re writing nothing but shit on the wall 
You call it capitalism, I call it no plot to live in  
The system gives us legal pot to smoke 
Nothing to piss in 
Get down off the cross this is godless living 
Kind of christ like 
But i’m not a christian  
Born in the mud, long since we’re not slithering 
Since 18 its been cold world, I was done shivering  
Shaking the towers, no one should be living in 
I’m down to earth, we bringing them  
With guillotines we’re swinging them  
There’s a prairie fire looking to consume us all 
It’ll take our crops before those Roman walls 
Moss covered, mass action undoes ‘em  
Already here, insurrection ain’t coming  
Sometimes invisible or blocking the vista 
Nourished from the fruit but I’m not an appleista  
Anarchist like Malatesta and many before 
No praying for a sword to clear in fealty to false gods

We're back, like the waves of human time, 
Splashing on the shores of those who build clocks 
Throwing shade, where the killer light shines 
Fighting for a world where no-one needs clocks  
(repeat) 

So let’s do this, cause it ain’t really been done 
Not a buddhist but my meditation gets the world undone  
Red and blue pills hidden under my tongue  
I’ve got a razor too but i tire of the cut  
And the taste of blood makes me sick  
But sick ain’t a choice it’s part for the course 
And when you're at the bottom of the food chain 
It’s either run and hide but we got other plans 
So here I stand, my pen against the world 
They paint me in a corner 
So i started to sculpt 
And all statues they built were to mass murders  
So i'm killing time because it' wants to kill me 
Guilty till they prove me innocent 
A millionaire until they prove I haven’t a cent 
Heart on fire, hands too in mouth 
And it's written in blood so it won't be put out 
That's why we’ve come back  
With the waves of human time 
Splashing on the shores of those who build clocks 
Throwing shade, where the killer light shines 
Fighting for a world where no-one needs clocks 

We're back, like the waves of human time, 
Splashing on the shores of those who build clocks 
Throwing shade, where the killer light shines 
Fighting for a world where no-one needs clocks

Clocks feat. Sole

Produced by Matterflow
Vocals by Mike Ladd
Composed by Matterflow and Ken Stringfellow
Arranged and Mixed by Rhino
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Gopher at Translab Mastering Studios
--- Lyrics :

(They Used to Blame it on the Sea People
1177 BC)

What is this twisted gene
the crook in the neck of broken crow
the hobbled soul in the suit of duke
who dreams to be king
harbinger of bitter things
This pitiful privilege
Is it the air pressure?
The dim winters the lack of sunlight
nerve endings dulled by frostbite
too much red meat, the faux glory of defeat
a million marble statues glorifying deceit
and what if the Caesars had let us be
If Cannae had been the ultimate loss
Hannibal headed home
and all stayed in trade and slow motions
of till and harvest
If waves picked us up in pacific mode
instead of the iron the bronze
What if they had forgone blood lust for gold
If Mussa never let the secret leak in Cairo
What would the world have been if Europe had left it alone

Damn we so far from what-if’s now
Postcolonial shadow been changing for hours
Ra and Oshun might move like Helios
same sea same wind push Sahara grains
Not so much Sunna or Sol so delicate
long night of winter can drive one insane
murals of infernos titillating the faithful
in every cathedral schizophrenic at get go
How can you hear all the spirits when you god is in mono?

This problematic goes so far back
I don’t wanna be simplistic
but who was the first to attack?

As we get older some are wiser
others just dig in
War is fought by babies
but it starts with old men

A Million Marble Statues feat. Mike Ladd

Produced by Matterflow 
Vocals by Guilty Simpson & MED
Composed by Matterflow and Julia Kent
Arranged and Mixed by Rhino
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Gopher at Translab Mastering Studios
--- Lyrics : 

Second coming,
Bringing wreck, while the records running
I’m through with it
You can check then numbers 
I’m fuelled by the hunger
The has beens never would become us
While they falling off so they shun us
We ran through the gutter
I’m fit for it like I’m getting cut up
They criticise till we made them shut up
My kind don’t suck up
Or focus on the dirt that’s being dug up
On the competition with a foot up
That i’m placing on their necks 
All for sheer disrespect 
I rep with my people from the west
Smoke yea we keep the very best
Exotics call in requests 
Cause they got it
Call in your death for a profit 
They gotta keep the balance in the positive 
Let em know when you gotta lick 
You rap cats popping shit 
We finding the address to your cottages 
It’s Guilty 


Running through the grudge 
Thumbing funds 
Counting hundreds up
Broke or face the judge
Over love
Never was a once 
Baby know it’s cut 
I ain’t none over for stressing her 
Walk out with a strut 
JJ Evans know we levelled up
Trust but never tell you nothing
Who fell in love with the buzz numbers
And sleepless summers 
Hung or be coming with close friends 
For ends lurking secretive 
Hanging but peeping your licks 
Watch who you eating with 
Read it in poems 
Had to live to see minted is soul 
Formed a heart of stone from this cold world 
To lose your job and got a baby girl 
We ducking prison to get a vision 
The futures blur
From black visions of a broken system 
You can’t fix it with stimulus 
When the ritz risen 
Flip it with stimulus feeding my elders addiction 
Change but I stay business 
Dope distributed pushing right out the sound system

Sleepless Summers

Sleepless Summers feat. Guilty Simpson & MED

1 Gardermoen By Julia Kent (Matterflow Remix)

Gardermoen By Julia Kent (Matterflow Remix)

10 - Life Story By Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm (Matterflow Remix)

03 - Lost it To Trying By Son Lux (Matterflow Remix)

Buy on iTunes

Pillar (feat. Julia Kent & Mike Ladd)

Buy on Itunes

Handle This (feat. Caroline Duris & Mike Ladd)

Growth

Buy on itunes

Pillar (feat. Julia Kent & Mike Ladd) [Robot Koch Remix]

Lost And Found (feat. Caroline Duris & Rosko John)

Surface (feat. Julia Kent & Caroline Duris)

Cascadeur - Turn To Dust - (Matterflow Remix)

Fade Out (feat. Rosko John)

Amotae 002

On Your Own (feat. Caroline Duris & Miro Shot)

Life Forms (feat. Caroline Duris & Miro Shot)

Life Forms (feat. Caroline Duris & Miro Shot) [Miro Shot Remix]

Fade Out (feat. Rosko John) [Dj Vadim Remix]

Matterflow, aka Sébastien Deguy, is a France-born and now San Francisco-based artist. A slasher, he is a musician / film-maker / writer / executive / scientist / entrepreneur.

As a music lover, his tastes span from the underground to classical via jazz. His influences come from artists such as Amon Tobin, SebastiAn, Aphex Twin, Erik Satie, Prefuse 73, Björk, Erik Truffaz, Beastie Boys, Philip Glass, Rjd2, MF Doom, and more.

Matterflow releases his first LP in January 2016, with "Run", including various remixes of songs from Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons), Lena & The Floating Roots Orchestra and Petit Fantôme.

Between 2017 and 2020, Matterflow has released various co-creations, for instance: "Stockholm Syndrome" feat. Qwel (Galapagos 4), "Joan" feat. Black Sifichi, "Tapis de Montmartre" feat. Tido Caiman Berman (TTC), "Amotae 001" feat. Mike Ladd (Big Dada, Definitive Jux), Caroline Duris and Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons), "Amotae 002" feat. Roman Rappack (Breton, Miro shot) and a remix by Robot Koch, "Lost and Found" and "Fade Out" feat. Rosko John (Archive), a remix of "Turn to Dust" by Cascadeur.

His latest production is full LP "A Matter Of Time And Essence" in 2021.

He is coming back with a new set of productions, with featurings by Hip Hop legends and new leaders like Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Havoc of Mobb Deep, Killer Mike, Stalley, MED, Sole, Killah Priest, Guilty Simpson, to be released mid-2022.


https://www.matterflow.fr
https://soundcloud.com/matterflow
https://vimeo.com/matterflow
https://www.facebook.com/matterflow
https://matterflow.bandcamp.com

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